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It made sense to Mr. Blankfein to have higher <strong>income tax<\/strong> rates, at least for individuals and corporations that did not push activities offshore (with help from Goldman?), to fund a larger welfare state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If helping 50 percent of Americans with fatter government paychecks and welfare checks (Hillary) is good, then helping 80 percent (Bernie) has to be better, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrong! Apparently one <em>can <\/em>have too much social justice. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/12\/business\/lloyd-blankfein-bernie-sanders.html\">&#8220;Bernie Sanders Would \u2018Ruin Our Economy,\u2019 Says Ex-Goldman Sachs Boss&#8221;<\/a> (NYT, February 12):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Lloyd Blankfein warned on Twitter that Mr. Sanders was \u201cjust as polarizing\u201d as President Trump.<\/p><p>Bernie Sanders has proposed <strong>a wealth tax <\/strong>on the richest Americans, blasted big businesses for turning huge profits while paying little in taxes and said he believed billionaires should not exist. <\/p><p>\u201cIf I\u2019m Russian, I go with Sanders this time around,\u201d he wrote, referencing that country\u2019s efforts to support Mr. Trump in 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>(i.e., to discourage working class Americans from referring to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_International_Jew\">The International Jew<\/a><\/em>, a Wall Street billionaire Jew says that U.S. election outcomes are determined from a foreign capital; nobody would ever make the leap in reasoning from &#8220;The most important things in the U.S. are controlled by Putin and his buddies&#8221; to &#8221; The most important things in the U.S. are controlled by international Jewish financiers&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/08\/how-to-steal-billions\/\">https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/08\/how-to-steal-billions\/<\/a> (Goldman pocketing 100X the usual fees in Malaysia while partying with Jho Low)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/white-men-correctly-perceive-american-jews-as-their-enemies\/\">https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/white-men-correctly-perceive-american-jews-as-their-enemies\/<\/a> (let&#8217;s see if we can&#8217;t get working class whites to have a better opinion of Jews if Wall Street billionaire Jews put themselves at the center every election)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/04\/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007\">&#8220;The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin&#8221; <\/a>(Politico, 2017)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Blankfein, who amassed a fortune of more than $1 billion while working at Goldman Sachs, was a supporter of Hillary Clinton, and therefore justice, back in 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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